Scam alert
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Anonymous
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/29/business/retirement-savings-scams.html?unlocked_article_code=1._U0.SNMS.0YJXCrAEDZwL&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
This happened to an elderly friend of mine a few months ago. Saw this today and another article in the Post a couple weeks ago. It sounds so crazy to me, but my friend is very smart and was still duped (thankfully not to the level in the article). Be safe out there! |
Anonymous
Dude, post the actual info, not blind links It's an old scam. Bored lonely dementia patients trying to play at being spies. "For nearly three months, Barry Heitin, a 76-year-old retired lawyer, thought he was part of a government investigation that felt like something out of the movies. He was actually assisting criminals in stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars — of his own money." |
Anonymous
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I was not trying to post a blind link. It’s a convoluted scam, and I was having a hard time describing it. I still don’t fully get how so many are falling for it, but they are. The scammers convince the person that their accounts have been compromised. So the victim helps move money around, withdraws funds, sends gold bars (what??). In this case, the victim lost 700k+. In the Post article, the person lost a similar amount.
https://wapo.st/3ydFJRT |
Anonymous
| Not understanding why people fall for them is the scariest part about scams. All we can do is know that they do, and we are not extraordinary, so we may also be vulnerable. So to try to stay vigilant. |
Anonymous
DP. This summary along with your original post is all we need to decide if it's worth our time to click. TY |
Anonymous
| Saw an article about how a guy read about a woman in MoCo had been scammed out of 700k in gold and realized he was being scammed for a million, so at least the police caught one of the guys involved |
Anonymous
| I just learned that my smart, frugal, lawyer father wired $100K to someone in Asia as part of a scam. I would NEVER expect something like this to happen to him. What do I do? Make him get checked out for dementia? Take away access to his accounts? I cannot believe this. |
Anonymous
This sounds like what my father just did. They convinced him they were the fraud department and one of his accounts was compromised and he needed to move money around. OMG |
Anonymous
I actually kind of love this. Old man with a huge ego spends hundreds of thousands feeling important… |
Anonymous
It does sort of remind me of when I used to tell my kids that no random adult needs help from a kid. Stranger danger. Similarly, the FBI is not depending on grandpa to solve this caper. (Except when the cops did have him do a money drop in the article, lol.) |
Anonymous
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The movie "Thelma" is about this. Great entertainment. The star is 90 years old. |
Anonymous
| The scariest part of that story is a retired lawyer in Arlington only had $760k saved for retirement |
Anonymous
| Can’t cheat an honest person. |